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Freyssinet – Part of a Winning Team
26 March 2013
The Special Award for Emergency Engineering works completed on the Hammersmith Flyover Phase 1, has just been awarded to a joint team of Civil Engineering Specialists, led by ‘Amey’ with Freyssinet supplying a large proportion of specialist structural enhancement techniques, labour, supervision and design that ensured this project both met and exceeded the clients expectations
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Freyssinet donation supports Serbian students at Shakespeare Schools Festival
16 January 2013
The Shakespeare Schools Festival charity is the largest youth drama festival in the UK. They aim to boost articulacy and confidence in young people through fun and active ways of learning, as well as teaching employability skills such as teamwork and self-discipline – all through the use of Shakespeare’s famous texts. In 2012 SSF’s global
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Freyssinet host seminar & site visit at A61 Gosforth Valley Viaduct
20 December 2012
A61 Gosforth Valley Viaduct The bridge was constructed in 1977 and comprises 6 simply supported spans of precast concrete beams and a 225mm thick slab. These beams are supported on 132 bearings which allow for: • articulation due to thermal movement • transverse restraint at each pier/abutment • longitudinal restraint at the fixed abutment In
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Freyssinet supply CE marked bearings for the New Walton Bridge
There has been a bridge at Walton on Thames since 1750, providing an important link across the River Thames between Shepperton and Walton on Thames. This new £32.4 million bridge is the sixth bridge is under construction, with previous bridges, dating back to 1750, having been dismantled and rebuilt as traffic evolved and increased over
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Expertise: integrated solutions for prestressing of buildings by post-tensioning
19 December 2012
For over 50 years Freyssinet has been involved in the construction of buildings and skyscrapers, optimising their structure through the benefits of prestressed floor technology. With its integrated design, supply and build prestressing solutions, Freyssinet makes its extensive expertise and know-how available to contracting authorities and architects, resulting in the design of ever more functional
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Maintenance of the ANZAC Bridge: a large-scale project and a world first
The ANZAC Bridge in Sydney provides a link between the central business district and the city’s western suburbs. Carrying 2 x 4 lanes, this road bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Australia, with a main span of 345m. When the bridge was opened in 1995, vibrations were detected in the stay cables due to
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Freyssinet remains at the forefront in design and construction of post-tensioned floor slabs
18 December 2012
Post-tensioning technology Freyssinet is an acknowledged leader in specialized civil engineering and introduced post-tensioned concrete building floor slabs to the UK in the early 1980’s. Since that time we have championed this technology and contributed to its acceptance as a standard technology and consequent exponential increase in utilisation in the last decade. We offer a
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Freyssinet raise over £200 for Movember!
3 December 2012
Over the past month a number of men at Freyssinet have been participating in Movember, an annual charity event responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of Movember is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and
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Freyssinet site wins prestigious award for excellence
27 July 2012
Freyssinet’s team at the R159 Rayhall Viaduct, alongside framework contractors Amey and Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, has recently been awarded the Phil Stanton Award for recognition of their exceptional performance on site. Teams were to submit evidence of ways in which they have excelled in terms of client satisfaction, health, safety, environmental and behavioural initiatives
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Freyssinet and Galglass – A Successful Partnership Continues
26 June 2012
Galglass are design and build specialists for concrete and steel storage tanks. As the market leading specialist contractor in the design and construction of cylindrical post-tensioned (PT) in-situ reinforced concrete sludge digester tanks in the UK, Galglass first appointed Freyssinet by as their post tensioning partner on the design and construction of 3No. 18m dia.
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